Excerpt: As a parent faced with the difficult dilemma of seeing his daughter suffer as she slowly slips into death or possibly giving her respite from the pain of dying, this should go down as Schwarzenegger’s most powerful career performance.

Excerpt: Maggie is a creative attempt to fashion a low budget, indie film about emotional and physical collapse with just a splash of zombie gore which never takes off; it stumbles and plods along as a stereotypical zombie would.

Excerpt: So much of it is so drearily grim, but as along as the viewer adjusts his or her expectations accordingly, “Maggie” still works surprisingly well for what it wants to do within its small scope.

Excerpt: s a thriller that doesn’t ultimately work, but you almost feel the need to applaud the effort. Odd to say, but that’s kind of refreshing. In a year that is offering us a vast minefield of movies in which no one even tried – Taken 3, Paul Blart 2, Unfriended, The Longest Ride – here is a genre film that works hard to give us something new. Ultimately, it doesn’t work, but you sense that there was a great effort to make something special.